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.\" Modified 2004-04-01 by aeb
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-.TH ASCII 7 2009-02-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ASCII 7 2014-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
It is a 7-bit code.
-Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the
-Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half.
+Many 8-bit codes (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half.
The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646.
.LP
The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.
044 36 24 $ 144 100 64 d
045 37 25 % 145 101 65 e
046 38 26 & 146 102 66 f
-047 39 27 \' 147 103 67 g
+047 39 27 \(aq 147 103 67 g
050 40 28 ( 150 104 68 h
051 41 29 ) 151 105 69 i
052 42 2A * 152 106 6A j
.BR iso_8859-6 (7),
.BR iso_8859-7 (7),
.BR iso_8859-8 (7),
-.BR iso_8859-9 (7)
+.BR iso_8859-9 (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)